Reception Class

EYFS Curriculum Key

October 2025 Round-up

September 2025 Round-up

We hope this page helps jog your little learner’s memory and prompts them to share all the exciting things they’ve been doing in school.

Our first topic is ‘Marvellous Me!’ and we’ve really enjoyed getting to know each other while celebrating the many ways we are all unique.

CL - We’ve been busy talking, chatting, and making new friends during our settling-in activities. The children have also met Tony the Tiger, who joins us for circle time. Tony helps us remember to be respectful listeners by keeping our eyes on the speaker.

PD - The children have had so many opportunities to get active and strengthen their gross motor skills. Each Monday, we are joined by sports coaches Jamie and Aaron from Fleetwood Town Community, who lead our balance bike sessions. The children are growing in confidence, developing their core strength, balance, and hand–eye coordination. They have also loved taking part in PE lessons. Our first unit introduces the 'Lancashire 5 under 5' – a framework for developing fundamental movement skills (FMS). These focus on teaching children how to run, hop, jump, throw (both underarm and overarm), and catch.

PSE - This half term, our focus text is The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas. We’re learning to explore and understand our feelings - identifying when we may be feeling something, and learning how to communicate and cope with our emotions. The children love our class meditation sessions and are becoming confident in using the calm corner in our classroom.

L - We’ve begun our Red Rose phonics lessons – the games bring so much joy and laughter to our classroom. Can you spot Mr Crocodile in the photos below? As the children are introduced to new phonemes, we also practise forming the cursive graphemes. We’ve done lots of mark making with different media and we’re getting to grips with the pinch of a tripod grasp.

M - Our Maths lessons are linked to The Numberblocks. We’ve focused on numbers 1, 2, and 3 – learning when a set can be subitised and when careful counting is needed. We’re also beginning to spot smaller numbers ‘hiding’ inside larger numbers.

UTW - What an exciting time of year to be exploring the world around us! We’ve loved noticing the change in seasons during forest school sessions and have had so much fun playing with autumnal treasures in our outdoor classroom too.

EAD - We have such a musical class this year! Our children are amazing singers and our classroom is often filled with nursery rhymes. In the art room, we’ve been busy creating all sorts of crafts and each child has drawn a wonderful self-portrait for our gallery wall.

July 2025 Round-up

June 2025 Round-up

Our topic for Summer 2 is 'Everyone Explore', Reception have loved discovering what life's like in different places around the world. No doubt you've all got the seven continents song going round and round in your heads!

CL - Reception have been talking about the similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries, drawing on their personal experiences, knowledge from stories and non-fiction texts and observations of maps. The new wall graphics in the hall helped us with this.

PD - In PE this half term, we're consolidating the fundamental movement skills we've been working on all year. We're also busy working on a nursery rhyme dance unit. Mr Aspden arranged a fun 'Health Week' for us all and we took part in ultimate frisbee, UV dodgeball, Taekwondo and our very first Sports Day.

PSE - In our PSHE lessons, we've discussed how we look after our wellbeing through exercise, meditation and eating a balanced diet. We're all independent learners who can manage our own hygiene needs and understand the importance of making healthy choices.

L - The children have wowed us with their sentence writing in preparation for Year One. We know that every super sentence should be spoken aloud first, begin with a capital letter, have letters formed correctly (sitting on the line), we use our phonics to help us segment to spell, add a finger space between words, finish it all off with a full stop and read it back to check it makes sense! There's so much to remember, but we're practicing lots and enjoying writing for many different purposes.

M - We've been doing lots of counting beyond 20 in Maths, spotting number patterns including double facts and whether numbers are odd, or even. The children love saying. . . "Oohh, that's odd!" when a quantity can't be shared into two equal groups.

UTW - We took our learning outside the classroom with a class trip to Blackpool Zoo. We've been scientists in forest school, making boats to experiment with different materials and their properties, testing which float and which sink. The children have been busy helping Mrs Mylecraine with her planting, and we're excited to find out the results of the Wyre in Bloom competition.

EAD - We walked to Thornton Library and joined 'Mama G' for an exciting session of songs and stories, encouraging us to take pride in who we are. A big thank you to Francis from Lancashire Music Service for our fun lessons on the djembe drums.

May 2025 Round-up

Our topic for Summer 1 was 'Amazing Animals' and our little learners have had so much fun learning and playing.

CL - We've been retelling the story What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson, the children were fantastic performing in front of the whole school and their friends and families in our class assembly.

PD - We've enjoyed lots of indoor and outdoor PE lessons, experimenting with moving our bodies like farm, ocean and zoo animals.

PSE - Our discussions taught us that we all have different beliefs and celebrations, what characteristics make a good friend, and how we need to listen to one another.

L - The class are well underway with Phase 4 phonics, reading longer words, compound words and words with suffixes -ing and -ed. You can find a list of Tricky words here: Tricky Words The children have discovered lots of new vocabulary and fun facts reading both fiction and non-fiction texts about animals.

M - EYFS are working on the composition of numbers, we're aiming to know our number bonds to 5 (and some to 10) off by heart.

UTW - I wonder what your child can remember about Mary Anning? The children loved learning about dinosaurs and fossils. We had a video call with Farmer Rachel which helped us learn where our food comes from.

EAD - The children will soon be brining home their amazing clay animal sculptures! They've worked so hard to design, plan and create them.